Which raises an interesting question - what's the valuable parts of Twitter? Customer base, for sure. Architecture for scalable messaging, absolutely. The rest of it? Not sure.

I'd argue that Twitter's brand is among its most valuable assets. It's globally known. Used and promoted by influencers like celebrities, artists, politicians, media, business leaders, activists. It's all over music, TV, media of all types. Heck, an entire movie was made about it.

That sort of broad public awareness is very hard for any company to get.

They are able to operate a company at that scale. I think your comment dismisses a lot of very functional people within their organization.

Layoffs/mergers are an unpleasant subject. Someone is always going to lose their job. I've been through it twice now - once survived, once not.